Posted on 10/10/2025 5:08:20 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Since President Donald Trump's H-1B visa crackdown, many Indian students who once dreamed of a world-class education, lucrative careers and a better quality of life, are nervous about tougher and more unpredictable U.S. immigration rules.
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Bengaluru-based Piyush is a 26-year-old who still wants to do an MBA in the United States. He asked for his full name not to be used, fearing it could affect his visa chances.
This is his story:
I have been in India all my life. I have studied and worked here and honestly, I have had enough. It is time to go. It is really hard in this country.
You end up working your entire life, only to earn peanuts. Basic things like housing are unaffordable in cities like Bengaluru and Mumbai.
Ever since I was a teenager, my dream has been to go to the United States - the promised land. The salaries, the work culture, the people are very, very good. I want to work with high-calibre peers and obviously, earn better.
After an MBA, annual salaries are about $150,000. If it is in consulting or finance, it could be up to $250,000. Buying a house or a car is not a luxury with that kind of pay.
Everything is much more within reach over there.
I thought 'MBA is my last shot at leaving', so I applied to a bunch of places - from Columbia Business School in New York to University of Chicago Booth School of Business. I'm hoping to hear back from them in early December.
My plan is to go on a student F-1 visa, get OPT for work experience and then the H-1B. I want to buy a car, eat good food, travel, but the main focus will be to recover my MBA expenses.
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Chase an Indian dream and beat it
“Indian student chases American Dream despite US H-1B uncertainties”
Foreigners stealing American dreams.
And the target audience for these stories is...?
Hmm. There are exponentially more American young adults with hard luck stories. The more educated the worse
For every Indian "chasing the American Dream" in America there is one American citizen bumped out of the way.
Instead of coming to America to live the good life let him chase his dream in India and clean up the toilets and garbage pits they live in.
This is what these Indian people don’t ever mention... getting an education here in the US and then going back to India to put their newly prized education to work lifting the Indian people up out of the poverty. Why is that?
Affluent white liberal females.
Stories like this activate their fee fees.
He hs had enough??!! What about us? You Indians come into OUR country, steal, CB heat and take over our communities, build demon temples and unleash your racists teenaged gangs!!!! Get the h**l out of her and back to the S**T hole u were spawned in. And fix it.
15 or so years ago when Indian immigration was in the news, an Indian coworker told me that he would NEVER go back to that "shithole" India.
The American dream is for Americans.
And just like that, there were no Ukraine posts any more.
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